BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to determine the effect of day of the week, holiday, team admission and rotation schedules, individual attending physicians and their length of coverage on daily team discharge rates. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of the General Internal Medicine (GIM) inpatient service at our institution for years 2005 and 2006, which included 5088 pa...

The capacity to predict the sensory consequences of movements is critical for sensory, motor, and cognitive function. Though it is hypothesized that internal signals related to motor commands, known as corollary discharge, serve to generate such predictions, this process remains poorly understood at the neural circuit level. Here we demonstrate that neurons in the electrosensory lobe (ELL) of w...

Changes in samples of Li12xCoO2 were measured by X-ray diffractometry ~XRD! after thermal aging treatments that cause capacity losses in electrochemical cells. Changes in lattice parameters were used to identify lithium re-intercalation into Li12xCoO2 when it was aged in the presence of LiClO4 , LiPF6 , and LiAsF6 in propylene carbonate ~PC!. Li 1 re-intercalation could account for the reversib...

The aim of this study was to investigate pulmonary function and exercise capacity in a group of survivors of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). At 3 months after hospital discharge, 46 survivors of SARS underwent the following evaluation: spirometry, static lung volumes and carbon monoxide transfer factor (TL,CO). In total, 44 of these patients underwent cardiopulmonary exercise test...

Lithium-air batteries (LABs) are expected to provide a cell with a much higher capacity than ever attained before, but their prototype cells present a limited areal cell capacity of no more than 10 mAh cm-2, mainly due to the limitation of their air electrodes. Here, we demonstrate the use of flexible carbon nanotube (CNT) sheets as a promising air electrode for developing ultra-high capacity i...

A mathematical model was developed which simulates the self-discharge capacity losses in the carbon anode for a SONY 18650 lithium-ion attery. The model determines the capacity loss during storage on the basis of a continuous reduction of organic solvent and de-intercalation of ithium at the carbon/electrolyte interface. The state of charge, open circuit potential, capacity loss and film resist...

Abstract The paper studies the surface temperature rise and pulse charge/discharge capacity of batteries with different rates under conditions. discharge performance charge rate characteristics an automotive lithium-ion battery were investigated. tests conducted ambient temperatures conditions to obtain voltage curve, capacity, change pattern external during charging process. Also, internal res...

OBJECTIVE To study the arrival pattern and length of stay (LoS) in a neonatal intensive care/high dependency unit (NICU/HDU) and special care baby unit (SCBU) and the impact of capacity shortage in a perinatal network centre, and to provide an analytical model for improving capacity planning. METHODS The data used in this study have been collected through the South England Neonatal Database (...